The cost of the pedestal was met with funds raised by popular subscription in the United States. Those at Sundays bill signing ceremonies could see Ellis Island in the background. As he spoke the President reminded his audience: Over my shoulder you can see Ellis Island. whose vacant corridors echo today the joyous sounds of long ago voices. In a sense we are all immigrants to this land and we all know the significance of the torch of freedom. Now. the new immigration bill ends the vicious discrimination and racism of the old law. The old law in effect said that persons coming from white. Anglosaxon.
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